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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04
no. 8.
The Resistance of the Atmosphere.


From Prof Langey's illustrated paper ON
Comets and Meteurs, IN the Century. we
quote as follows: Everybody has noticed
that if We move IA fan gently, the air parts
before il with little effort. while when we
try 10 fan violently the same air is felt to
react vet if we go ON TO say that if the
motion is still more violent. the atmosphere
will resist like solid, against which the
fan. if made Of iron, would break in pieces,
this may seem TO some an unexpected prop
ertV of the 'nimble' air through which we
move daily. Yet this is the case and if
the motion is only so quick that the air can
not get out of the way, a body hurled against
it will rise in temperature like IA shot strik
ing an armor-plate 1t is all question Of
speed. and that Of the meteorite is known
to be immense. One has been seen TO fly
over this country from the Mississippi to the
Atlantic in an inappreciably short time
probably in less than two minutes-and
though at a presumable height of over %
miles, the velocity with which it shot by
gave every one the impression that 1t went
just above his head, and some witnesses of
the unexpected apparition looked the next
day to see if it had struck their chimneys.
The heat developed by arrested motion in
the case of a mass of iron moving 30 miles
a second can be calculated, and is found to
I've much more than enough, not only to
melt it, but to turn it into vapor; though
what really does happen is, according to
Prof Newton. that the melted surface por
tons are wiped away by the pressure of the
air and volatilized to form the luminous
train, the interior remaining cold, until the
difference Of temperature causes a fracture,
when the stone breaks and pieces fall-some
of them at red-hot heat, some of them, pos
sibly, at the temperature of outer space or
far below that Of freezing mercury. Where
do these stones come from What made
them The answer is not complete but if
a part of the riddle is already yielding to
patience it is worthy Of note, AS an instance
Of the connection of the sciences, that the
first help to the solution of this astronomical
enigma came from the chemists and the ge
OlDgiSts -
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04

WONDERFUL MEMORY Magliabecchi, Il
Florentine, born 1888, was blessed with
wonderful memory. From early years he
was an Unsuitable reader, and became fa-
miliar, it is written, with nearly every book
extant in Europe at that period More than
this, he could repeat nearly everything that
he read. He was sometimes called "a liv-
ing, speaking index of all the literature of
the age Learned persons came to him to
direct them to any book needed for consul
tation volume, page, and often the very
line, were at his tongues end
He studied the catalogues of all the fla
nous libraries, both public and private,
and so familarzed himself with collections
of books and valuable manuscripts that he
had never seen. At one period he was Ii
brarian to the Grand Duke, and being one
day inquired of by his royal patron con
corning a very rare book which was need
full in some investigation, replied, There
is but one copy in the world, and that is in
the library of the Grand Seignior at Con
stantinople and the point you are in search
of may. be found in book number seven ON
the seventh shelf ON the right hand side as
one enters
Magliabecchi died in Florence in INA, in
his Slst year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04
MISCELLANY.
A lesson in Natural History.

y heNNou ~ NNthfhl NhNAuFg'
II suppose you think you know me-, Child. said hr
But thugs are seldom what they seem To- le.
And vuur ignorance ! cannot but lament
can give some information
For your mental cultivation.
If YOU listen with mind intelligent.
go. thank you, sir" she said in tones polite.
Though her teeth they chartered audihly Nitl
fright
Then give me yuifi attention. ho began,
And please do not grow hdEetN
Ny family is SirigidU,
And SBniint CiHereum my clan.
My customs may say. arp quite nocturnal
Though my cousins. the NBcfens. are diurnal.
They are dear but distant relatives Ut lniurl
MY habits are curnivOrous
Aud sometimes iusectivUrUus.
To rodents especially incline.
Ny eyes are rather luminous. ! own"
He continued in a meditatiyr tone,
But il II would obligr you. could wink
My pupil are dilatiug,
But the lids are nictitatng,
Which enables me to give my noted blink.
II greNe TO say that persons superstitious
Abuse me in a manner most malicious,
But YOU regard me not with careless eyes
ly.t me ask you To observe
Final fact that to Minerva
| am sacred and I'm counted very wise. '
Il thank you very kindly sir, said size.
But all your Latin words are Greek to me;
Don't think me rude you are a learned fowl.
Aud much admire your feathers,
So suited to all Wratheis;
But excuse me - ar. you not Our common owl
Hur,.h 81 NtchOiIS
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04

They never throw anything away in New
England, - T. b. Aldrich says they always
put it up in the attic. -
15-years-o old lad at Decatur, Ind. got
up in his sleep one night hast week and
walked to his brothers, Is miles distant,
where he was awakened while trying to
open the barn door
A gang of brick-layers were engaged in
lining the stacks on Valentines furnaces at
Belfont, Pa, one day last week, when the
scaffolding on which they stood gave way,
precpitating II men to the bottom of the
stack, distance of 81 feet. Seven men
were killed
Dr. Hainswald the African traveller, says
that in Zuluand he met the savage who
killed the French Prince Imperial, and told
him that if he had only taken the young
man prisoner he might have got a large
ransom whereupon the Zulu wept with re-
greet and grief.
A man brought bomb into the patent of
fee the other day which he said would ex-
plode when placed in water. The private
secretary of the patent commissioner didn't
believe it, and ducked the bomb in pail of
water, whereat it exploded with terrific eff
feet, blowing the pail in dozens of pieces,
and splashing the water over every foot of
A little girl in town whose brother uses
slang TO excess has been taught 10 say IA
certain prayer in verse each night She
recently hesitated as she fell ON her knees
at the bedside and said. Mamma shouldn't
you be afraid God would say 'chestnuts' ut
me F-Sprinaieid Republican.
A little girl of eight summers stepped in
to the store of an Italian fruit vender the
other day TO buy some peanuts, She was
going to make call upon u friend,
and wished TO bring something with her to
add to the entertainment Stepping up To
the fruit vender she said II want > cents
worth of peanuts and" looking appealing
~ into the Italians face, please give me
a lot for there's nine in the family. - BoS-
ION Budget,
A guest who was walking out of Chi
cago hotel few mornings ago absorbed in
IA newspaper he had just bought, stumbled
and came near falling over somebody who
was down on the floor,
Hello What's this = he exclaimed has
tily as he recovered himself
Pm a scruhlndy, sir ~ replied "A bedrag
/ gled but proud female, who rose 10 a kneel-
/ ing posture, scruhbing brush in hand. and
looked at him with "A whitening glance.
] -thicdD0 Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04
shnL.nere in Ersr,.Dn, Life.

The power Of SHAKESPEARE over the public is
shown by the extent to which his phrases,
and even his slang, have become incorpu-
rated into our language. Among these are
bag and baggage, dead as u door nail 80
proud of ones humility, hit or miss 80
''love is blind, selling for song, wide
world. "cut copies, fast and loose. 80
''unconsidered trihesn westward ho. &c
familiarity breeds contempt, patching
up excuses misery makes strange bed
fellows, ITO boot, lin "a trade. short and
long of it, =" comb your head with IA three
legged stool. dancing attendance. get
ting even, Crevengel, birds of feather, -"
that's fiat, ~ tag rag. - Greek to me, &c
lunintelligible), send one packing. "as the
day is long, packing a jury, mother
wit, kill with kindness, mum. for 81
lencel iii wind that blows no good, wild
goose chase, ''scare-crow, luggage '
"rows of pins las a mark of value. viva
voce. give and take, sold lin the way
of joke, your cake is dough. The girl
who playfully calls some youth 'milksop'
is also unconsciously quoting Shakspere,
and even loggerhead' is of the same orr
gin. "Extempore' is first found in Shaks
pere. and so are ''almanacs. The "elm and
vine las "A figure may also be mentioned.
Shakspere is the first author that speaks of
''the man in the moon, or mentions the po-
tato or uses the term 'cyesore for annoy
ance Another often quoted utterance may
he here mentioned simply because it is gen
orally misunderstood ''One touch of ma
ture makes the whole world kin. which is
supposed to express the power of sympathy,
whereas it solely referred to the widespread
operation of selfshness.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04

Speaking of the marriage of the famous
missionary Grenfell to a negro woman of
the Congo, writer in the New York Sun
says: At Kabinda Grenfell saw among the
mission converts bright young woman
who had received a fair education in the
mission school of Kabinda. She was a
comely girl She had been instructed for
years in the arts of housewifery by the
mission ladies'. dressed in the garb of her
civilized sisters, was neat and industrious
and devout Christian. She was, in fact,
in her changed condition, one of the best
products of missionary labor, Grenfell be
lieved she would make him a good help
meet in his future arduous work as piO-
neer missionary. In due time they were
married, and from that day to this, Gren-
fell's friends say, he has had no reason to
regret the very unusual choice he made.
1t can be said, on the authority of Henry
NJ Stanley, that the two babies who have
been born TO Mr. and Mrs Grenfell are
beautiful little children The home of
the Grenfells is ON Stanley Pool, but until
the past year they have not been there
much of the time. Mrs. Grenfell and one
of the children accompanied the missionary
on some of the adventurous journeys in
which he has explored over 1000 miles of
the navigable waters of the Congo basin
She sat unperturbed and very comfortable
behind the wire screen that warded off the
showers of arrows which were launched at
the little steamer Peace by the hostile ma
tiyes of the Mubanpi river
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04
Lacked One Gren, Thing.

Col. f. B. Stockbridge, who has Just been
elected United States Senator IN Michigan,
has one of the finest private residences in
the west. He is rather hale and hearty
man himself, and doesn't care much for
the fashionable or the luxurious, Howev-
er, just to please the home folks, he spent
a cool 100000 ON the Kalamazoo mansion.
Shortly after the completion of this SPLEEN
did edifice he invited one of his old friends,
a Michigan horseman, to inspect the prem
ises. After looking at all the fine things
this friend said "Wa'al, Frank you've
got a mighty fine house here, and | reckon
there's nothin' more you want.
yes, answered Stockbridge, II sup
pose It's very recherchy, but there's just
one other thing that's lackin'."
whats that p asked the visitor.
"A parrot said Stockbridge,
"A parrot - cried the visitor Nov
what ON airth do you want of IA parrot,
Frank y
I'D like to have him set right up over
the front door said Stockbridge, $50 that
every time he saw me he'd flop his wings
and holler Here comes that fool
ag'm !'"-Chicdgo NeiCS.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04
A Ourcr Pension One.


Washington despatch
The pension office i. peculiarly interest
ed in Ann Howley of Rutland, Vt Way
back in 1871 she applied for Il pension As
the widow of soldier who had been wound
ed and taken to "A hospital Since then she
tried in vain to find traces Of him and af
ter waiting for nearly ten years she gave
him up Us dead. Her petition was filed.
In 1880 petition was filed by the minoI
child of Ann Howley asking for a pension,
giving the same story of the Disappearance,
of her father and adding that the mother
too had gone and left the child mcared for
but ON last week Howley himself applied
for a pension, He described his life in the
hospital, but does not say why he did not z,
back to his wife and child and what j,
strangest of all he gives Washington, DC.
rs his post-otiice address.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04

The frontispiece of the March Harper's is
one Of Ahbey's naive pictures, illustrating
a sunday phase of the good old days of our
grandnothers. 1t is called The Day of
Rest" In one corner of the high pew n
young woman and her small boy are peace
fully slumbering, while the worthy pastor
stretches ont his discourse. The spirit and
aspect of life in the 18th century, as admi-
rally represented in this drawing, is pleas
antly described in the Editors Easy Chair
hy George William Curtis.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04

The workings who, the winter through.
To balls and parties went
Till they were worn and Wrarird out,
Now thank their stars for Lent.
Paterfamilias, who has
Full many ducat spent
Upon poor fashions fullirs, now
Rejoicrs that it's Lent.
Fair maidens who have danced their ill.,
And dainty raimtnt rent
Till they have nothing left tu wear,
Now don't object To- Lent
One supreme thought will an their minds:
Each girl will b. intent
Upon her Easter bonnet through
The forty days of Lrnt
The fish man with his salmon rare,
Way thru' from Frisco sent.
And worth its weight in gold he too
Is glad that it is Lent.
\ little span of respite for
The world ON pleasure hrut;
A breathing space, a letting up,
A loating time, is Lent.
But when It comes right down to things
For which the seasons meant
To Notifying of the flesh
There isn't much in Lent, Boston Globe
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04

Abraham Lincoln, says Messrs. Nicolay
and Hay, in the Century, was given purse
of 5000 by the Wings of his district to pay
his personal expenses when he ran for Con
gress After the election was over he hand
ed back Sl99,25. II did not need it, " he
said II made the canvass ON my own horse
my entertainment being at the houses OF
friends, cost me nothing, and my only out
lay was - cents for barrel of cider which
some farm hands insisted should treat
them Ia ~
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04

Who is the god of battles ~ asked a
teacher of the class in mythology, Mar, p"
answered little Johnnie llenpeck. Mars, "
YOU mean, Johnnie, corrected the teacher
mo. / don't neither. only got one mar ~
Washington critic
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04
Why did the Women

of this country use over thirteen million cakes of
Proctor & CANDLES Lenox Soap in 1886?
Buy cake of Lenox and you will soon understand why
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04
VOL. LIV.
Business CARDS.
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Representing Companies whose assets are over
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TENEMENTS TO LET.
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w ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
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Boils pimplrs, hives, riugWurn letter, and an
other manifestations If impure blood, are cured by
Hoods SarsapaiillA.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04
SICK

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ly valuable in Constipation curing and preventing
this annoying complaint. while they also correct
all disorder Ut the stomach. stimulate the liver
aud regulate thr bowels. Even if they only cured
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very easy to take. one or two pills make "a dose.
They are strictly vegetable aud do not grip- or
purge. but 10y their gentle action please all who
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-26

words of her companion than in admir-
ing the beauties of the scenery. His
conversation was growing quite inter-
estlng, and he remarked that he hoped
thelr Journey through life might be as
smooth and free from jars as the motion
OF the boat, when, in the sailors verna-
cular, he caught a ''crab," and as he
Vainly endeavored to catch the I'M
shlpped oar, it disappeared in the gloam-
ing. In the confusion that ensued the
other oar slipped through the oar lock
and went to join its mate. He padded
around with his hands in search of the
missing oars, but all efforts to recover
them proud unavailing. He glanced at
the nearest shore and calculated that
with his only means of propeliing the
boat and the present condition of the
WIND, he might reach terra firma by the
4th OF July-if he had good luck. He
began to grow anxious; he had asked
the young lady out from the city for a
rev hours quiet row, and not to spend
the season. The 10 O'clock train would
leave at 10 as usual, the same as though
nothing had happened; and as he, In
fancy, saw the young ladies' stern par
ent anxiously consulting his timepiece
and wondering what had become of his
daughter, great drops of perspiration
bespangled his brow. But fate was
KIND, and after drifting around on the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-26
when St. Paul Was YOUNG

Among the visitors at the convention
OF the master mechanics and master car
builders there were some who had been
In st. Paul before. but none whose first
visit dated so far back as that of C. M.
Reed, of Corning, n. Y, who, in com
pany with Hon. Joseph Haskell, first
came to st. Paul (then only small set
tlement of about a dozen houses) in
1874. After a stay of about two wears.
Mr.. Reed left the Northwest for Texas.
and since that time has not visited ST.
Paul until during the past week. Meeting
one or two of the old settlers and friends
OF fOrty-three years ago. it is needless to
state that his stay in the city has been
an enjoyable one. Mr.. Reed is now over
sixty years of age, but still has the life
and spirit OF man of thirty, with not
wrinkle on his face to mark the trail of
time. A trip to the GLOBE tower was
one of the many pleasant incidents of
the past week, and as he gaZed about
upon the wide eXpanSe of built-up terri
tory, he searched in vain for old land
marks of 1874. Mr. Reed goes back TO
his Eastern home with many happy
remembranceS of st. Paul and the r0val
manner in which he has been treated by
all with whom he has come in contact.
Arm and arm with the son of his old
time friend he has fought again in fancy
the scrimmages of early border life.
With sigh for the departed and a word
OF cheer for the survivors, he leaves for
home with kindly impression of the
metropolis of the Northwest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-26
The Dime Museum

For the coming week at the Seventh
street dime museum an entire change of
programme is announced. Bobby New
comb reappears for the last time in a
musical burlesque entitled ''Adonis. or
the Sculptor" The Hill children, iuve-
nile dancers, the Winstanleys, cham
piOn musicians and dancers, Kitty Ran
dOlph, the balladiSt, Howard and other
artists are announced. In the
lower theater Harry Thorne and
Miss Maggie Willett will
produce the farce-comedy, sIn an Up-
town Flat" supported Ply Mr.. Bockus.
Mr.. Theroal. Miss Ronaldo and others.
Saturday children are admitted to seats
free. The management announce, in
the near future, a collection of cele-
brated pictures, secured from that great
est of oil collectors, Thurston Stanton
Howard. In Curio hall the armless wit
and punster, Barney Nelson, and the
Yakee Whittlers, will be the principal
features.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-26
THE MAN AND THE COAT.

We observe that several of our East
ern contemporaries are very much
wrought up over the tremendous ques-
ton as to whether dress coat should
be worn or not, and, if so, by whom,
and at what times. 1t appears to us
that in the contention which has been
raging among them on the subject, they
have neglected to look beneath the sur
face, and have treated the question in a
manner entirely too superficial.
The man who intends to make one of
the members of society, in the restricted
sense of the word, must necessarily
obey the unwritten law of the assem-
blage in which he. seeks to move, and
attire himself on proper occasions in
the uniform presented by its members,
just as much as a soldier must wear the
uniform of his regiment. 1t this fact lies
the dress coats strongest argument. But
we submit that our disputatious con-
tempOraries are losing light of the man
in their strife over his coat. In our
humble opinion, the kind of man whom
the coat covers is far more material.
The dress coat may attire fashionably
the veriest fop and nincompoop, while
the flannel shirt may cover the broad
shoulders of real man, one whose
breast is heaving with honest and earnest
aspirations. whose heart beats with
kindly impulses, and whose hands are
hard with honorable toll This one,
though he never saw dress coat. save
on the back of waiter, is of more value
to society, in its unrestricted sense, than
half dozen of his shallow-pated, but
fashiOnably dressed brethren. Not but
that there are as brave and energ~.c
young fellows as ever lived who delight
to attire themselves in broadcloth andfine
line9, but the odds are in favor of the
sturdy youth who knows net the mean
ing of finery, masculine or feminine.
Despite the coat that covers his back,
"a mans a man for a. that" as BOBBY
BURNS sang, and we are surprised that
this view of the matter did not occur to
our satirical contemporaries.